In addition to his
professional consultancy work, Tony Prescott has written extensively on aspects
of the history of transport in Sydney, Australia, particularly on its extensive
ferry system - one of the largest in the world – and, more recently, technical
and planning papers on proposals for reintroduction of trams to Sydney. Some of
these works have been published, some have not. Over the years, much call has
been made on Tony's work as supporting material for books, articles, multimedia
products, radio broadcasts, and heritage and museum management. Accordingly,
Tony has decided that the body of this work should be made more publicly
accessible through digital publication in one collection on the Internet.

The origin of this project
is an initiative by Fisher Library, University of Sydney, to digitally publish
Tony's Master of Arts (Honours) thesis: The Manly Ferry: a history of the
service and its operators, 1854-1974 (University of Sydney, March 1984).
This 400 page work is the definitive history of the famous Manly ferry service
and is an underlying reference for much of the other work in this collection.
The thesis is now on-line at the Sydney
University Library eScholarship Repository.

Other works by Tony to be
published in this collection are:

General Transport

Transporting North
Sydney: a history of North Sydney's Transport. 1988. [Written as part of the North
Sydney Bicentennial history project but not published.]

'South Steyne'
(co-authored with Ross Willson). The Log, vol. 16, no. 3 (new series)
(August 1983), pp. 76-81; vol. 16, no. 4 (new series) (November 1983), pp.
116-121. [The definitive work on this world-famous steamship, this was also
published in expanded form with additional material by Peter Plowman and Tony
Prescott in Australian Sea Heritage, nos. 25-28 (1990-1991). The digital
publication will be of the original article expanded with additional material.]

COPYRIGHT AND CITATION

﻿All publications in this
collection are in the copyright of the author/s. (The Kooleen report is
published with the consent of the NSW Maritime Authority.) Images and other
materials referenced are in the copyright of their originators or owners.
Copyright is protected by Australian and international law and breaches of
copyright are likely to be prosecuted in Court. Breach of copyright is theft of
intellectual property which is theft as real as the taking of physical
property.

It is necessary to make
this point because many people in the amateur history and transport enthusiast
fields in Australia have been prolific plagiarists and large parts of the
publications in this collection have appeared in the past in other publications
without acknowledgement. It is emphasised that, by publishing these works in
digital form on the Internet, they are being made freely available for public
use without a fee. Limited citation is allowable, but with the simple (and legally
defensible) provision and common courtesy of an acknowledgement.

This may be in the form of
citation of the original source (see under Background above),
e.g.:

Tony Prescott, The
Pittwater and Hawkesbury River Ferry Services of the Port Jackson and Manly
Steamship Co. Ltd. 1942-1974. Published on www.historyworks.com.au, 2007.

Note: Tony now writes under
the name Tony Prescott but some earlier work appeared under A.M. Prescott. The
formal cataloguing data for Tony is: Prescott, Anthony Malcolm 1947 -

NOTE ON MEASUREMENTS

﻿In these publications,
most measurements are in the Imperial units used in the contemporary shipping
registers and documentation, the vast quantity of this historical data being
Imperial. Conversions to metric may be calculated as follows:

Feet to metres, multiply by
0.3048Horsepower to kilowatts,
multiply by 0.746Knots to kilometres per hour,
multiply by 1.853Register ton (100 cubic feet)
to cubic metres, multiply by 2.83